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...arouse the audience's interest, even if only for their peculiarity. But Fellini, alas never satisfies that interest. The connections between the passengers and the ashes in the urn remain unclear all through. "And the Ship Sails On," and the burial seems little else than the director's pretext for gathering a bunch of people on a doomed ship. The funeral's insignificance convinces the audience that something else must happen, a lack of subtlety that mars the film...
...steps to prevent the dangerous throwing of objects onto the playing area. However, unlike heckling in classrooms or at University-sponsored speaking events, shouting of any kind at athletic events neither impedes the game nor endangers the participants. Harvard should not use this document, or any other, as a pretext for regulating students' vocal behavior at athletic contests...
...Shiffer, despite the fact that Israeli military intelligence concluded that the skirmishing between Palestine Liberation Organization forces and Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border in July 1981 was provoked by the Israelis, not by the P.L.O. The Begin government, which used the threat of P.L.O. attacks as a pretext for the invasion, refused to make the report public...
...about shooting Schwab on Honduran soil. Nonetheless, the Nicaraguans announced they would conduct a full investigation. "The government deplores this incident and expresses its condolences to the pilot's family," said the official communique. It also expressed the hope "that this casualty will not be used as a pretext to aggravate the already critical situation in Central America." On that point, at least, Managua and Washington appeared to be in agreement...
Karl: I don't think it presented an opening. I think what the Nicaraguans are doing and, actually, I think very intelligently, is that they're taking away any possible pretext for an invasion, any possible excuse. I also agree that I don't think there is going to be an invasion at this moment. I think what they have done has, in fact, made it very difficult for the U.S. to do something militarily against Nicaragua, right now, without looking like an enormous bully...